telescope mounting standards..Meade/Celestron

[davieradio]

I've just bought a secondhand Meade Wedge, for my Large Meade field tripod,surprise the screws don't fit from the wedge into the tripod.

But the scews from my Celestron Orange C8 SCT fit it ..crazy ,so has anyone an idea what the standard is for the tread size? it looks an imperial size

I thought quite innocently that the three mounting screws( telescope to Wedge )were also a standard spacing ...but no the Meade and celestron have different spacing,and of course different threads what are the thread sizes for a Celesrton I wish to drill and tap the Wedge to make it a multi product wedge and have no idea the thread size again it looks imperial,

hey its a minefield out there! :?

[centroid]

I suspect the tripod was designed to take the Meade 'Super Wedge', which is a larger and heavier version of the standard wedge.

All bolts/screws on Meade 'kit' are Imperial size, with either UNC or UNF threads.

Dave